TL;DR
This Senior PMM role at Expliseat, a company making lightweight aircraft seats, involves shaping how their innovative products are presented to airlines. You'd love this if you're an experienced PMM who enjoys a tangible, B2B product and wants to make a big impact in a niche industry.
At Expliseat, we are reinventing the way people travel. Since 2012, our patented ultralight aircraft seats have been making planes lighter, reducing fuel consumption, and cutting CO₂ emissions. With over 10,000 seats already flying worldwide, we are the leader in ultralight seats for regional aviation and are now expanding into the medium-haul market. Our mission? Combine performance, comfort, and a positive environmental impact. Join a passionate team where innovation, agility, and bold ideas drive every project—and help decarbonize tomorrow’s mobility ✈️
In a market dominated by heavy, complex legacy seats, Expliseat is disrupting the seat segment with a unique value proposition: the lightest seat in the world, without compromise. As the Product Marketing Director, you own the global positioning, the messaging, and the go-to-market strategy for our products. You act as the vital link between our Engineering team (Technical innovation) and our Regional Sales teams (Market reality).
Market & Competitor Intelligence: Be the absolute expert on the seating market. Dissect competitor products (Collins, Safran, Recaro...), pricing strategies, and feature roadmaps to identify Expliseat’s winning angles.
Value Proposition Definition: Craft a compelling narrative that shifts the paradigm. Move the conversation from just "weight savings" to "revenue generation," "range extension," and "superior passenger experience" for premium cabins.
Pricing Strategy: Define and maintain the global pricing guidelines and option catalog strategies to maximize margins while remaining competitive.
Sales Toolkit Factory: Produce high-impact sales assets for the Regional VPs and Customer Marketing teams. This includes:
Product Expert in Sales Campaign: Act as a go to product focal for Regional Sales and Marketing teams: Demos, Product Rebuttle, Influencing SMEs.
Internal Training: "Train the trainer". Regularly educate the Regional Sales and Marketing teams on new features, handling objections, and the subtleties of selling luxury vs. commodity.
Voice of the Market to Engineering: Translate market feedback and passenger trends (privacy, connectivity, ergonomics) into requirements for the R&D team to guide the future product roadmap.
Product Launches: Orchestrate the global launch of new features or models (major focus on key industry events like AIX Hamburg). Coordinate with the Comms team to ensure maximum media impact.
Customer Advisory: Participate in key meetings with Tier 1 customers as a technical representative, bringing hands-on engineering expertise to support technical discussions, present the product roadmap, and gather strategic insights directly from the source.
Inputs to Communications: develop content, analyses, white papers for communication purposes
Product Marketing: going to conferences (Red Cabin) speaking at events, building network with SMEs in airlines and stakeholders
Experience: 8-12 years in Product Marketing or Strategy. Ideally in Aircraft/Seats OEMs or Airline Product/Cabin Experience
Mandatory: Deep knowledge of the Seat Aviation market OR experience in a Automotive/High-Tech hardware industry where design and user experience are critical. Experience launching hardware products in a B2B2C environment.
Hard Skills: Storytelling: Ability to transform complex technical specs (composite materials, kinematics) into a desirable prem
Apply directly on Expliseat's website.
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